English Renaissance

The English Renaissance was a period of artistic and cultural rebirth in England, lasting from the 1520s to around 1620. The House of Tudor granted its patronage to Northern Renaissance artists, and literature and music would dominate the English Renaissance instead of visual arts. The Renaissance did not spread into England as quickly as it had into Italy and Flanders, but it would flourish under Queen Elizabeth I of England in the second half of the 16th century.